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SSA Magazine: Bearing Witness
Studies show that exposure to community violence can lead to trauma and destructive behavior. So why aren't we doing more about it?
Assistant Professor Malitta Engstrom discusses psychological first aid for people who have been exposed to traumatic events.
Read more about two promising programs that may reduce youth violence.
University of Chicago Crime Lab
The University of Chicago Crime Lab and Youth Guidance team up to reduce youth gun violence and improve school outcomes in Chicago.
Read the press release and view news coverage
Study looks at welfare reform from the viewpoint of most needy
How it Works: Recovering Citizens in Post-Welfare Philadelphia, examines the phenomena of Philadelphia’s recovery house movement. School of Social Service Administration Assistant Professor Robert Fairbanks, II, Ph.D, spent two years studying people with substance abuse problems in Philadelphia's recovery houses.
Watch a video by Assistant Professor Fairbanks
SSA Alumnae in the News
Evette Cardona, AM '98, is recognized by the University of Chicago
for her efforts to foster and promote diversity, winning one of the 2010 University of Chicago Diversity Leadership Awards...
Read the article here.
Jinnie English, AM '99, and her business, Chicago’s High Achievers, are featured in the
current University
of Chicago Magazine...
Read the article here.
Jeanne C. Marsh: A legacy of success
Dean Jeanne C. Marsh will step down as dean in 2010, but her enormous influence on the continued success and momentum of SSA will be felt for decades to come. “At 100 years, SSA is in excellent shape, and I’m enormously proud to have been able to be a part of the faculty, staff, students, alumni, friends and supporters who have made that possible,” says Marsh.
SSA Dean Search
Jeanne C. Marsh, Dean and George Herbert Jones Distinguished Service Professor, will complete her term as Dean on June 30, 2010. The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration has begun a comprehensive and international search for her replacement.
Student Spotlight: Bruce Thao
Bruce Thao spent three months in 2009 in Thailand with RADION International, a local non-governmental organization committed to helping Hmong-Thai villagers and Hmong-Lao refugees. It was an experience, he says, that “changed the way I think about everything..."
Alumni Spotlight: Translating Transitions
At Children’s Memorial Hospital, a variety of programs led by SSA alumni help patients and their families prepare for a longer life...
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
2010 Winter and Spring Schedule
Workshops include:
- Career and Life Planning
- Introduction to Infant Mental Health
- Management Tools for Stressful Times
- Motivational Interviewing: An Advanced Workshop
- Review for the Registered Dual Disorder Professional (RDDP) Exam
- Short-Term Solution-Oriented Groups for Parents and At-Risk Adolescents
- Substance Use in Older Adults
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CHICAGO CONTRIBUTES: "Access After Health Care Reform" and "The Role of Higher Education in Improving Urban Schools"
The University of Chicago hosted "Chicago Contributes," in Washington, D.C. -- a day-long dialogue on federal and local efforts to expand access to health care and improve student performance in urban schools. President Robert J. Zimmer hosted the events, which featured keynote speeches from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and U.S. Department of Education Secretary and former SSA Visiting Committee member Arne Duncan, and panels with Tim Knowles, Director of the Urban Education Institute and Charles Payne, Frank P. Hixon Professor, SSA.
View videos, photos, and story.
For Prospective Students
We invite Prospective Students to learn more about the School of Social Service Administration: program options, degree requirements, the application process, financial aid, and our new 15-month Accelerated Program and BA/MA Program. Please contact Mary Debose at 773-834-8104 or 1-866-213-6794.
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Announcements
SSA Symposium
Over-Representation: An Emerging Epidemic of African Americans in Distress
Keynote Speaker: Erwin McEwen
Director, Illinois Department of Children & Family Services
Saturday, February 20, 2010
10:00a.m.-2:00p.m.
Registration Required
Winter Icebreakers
With SSA Dean, Jeanne C. Marsh, Faculty, and Staff
Monday,
February 15, 2010
First-year
Students
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm, SSA Lobby
International Social Welfare Summer Fellowship Applications Due February 15th
For more information, contact Meghann Mulherin.
Winter Wellness Fair for Graduate Students
Wednesday, February 17 and Thursday, February 18, 11:50 am - 1:30 pm, SSA Lobby
Learn more about wellness resources on campus.
